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How do you control school spending?
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's solution is to limit reimbursements to school districts for money they spent on certain programs the previous year, a prospect he says could save state taxpayers millions.
School district officials and some lawmakers see something else: another move by the governor to pass more education costs to property tax…

Teams with names like Mid Ice Crisis, Here for Beer and Old Skool hit the ice at Buffalo RiverWorks on Sunday, as the Labatt Blue Buffalo Pond Hockey Tournament tried something new: adding a one-day competition as a prelude to the main tournament.
More than 200 players from 24 teams competed in three divisions in a game schedule that spanned more than six hours. The lar…

Kevin O. Turner Jr., a talented, up-and-coming rapper from Buffalo, took to Facebook last July on his 21st birthday.
"I'm in this Cadillac doing the dash!!!" Turner wrote, noting that many African-Americans don't make it to that age.
Turner never made it to 22.
Known to friends as "KT," Turner was fatally shot Jan. 21 in Niagara Falls. Police are still searching f…

The Buffalo Police Department is ending its "Strike Force" unit which the department had used to target crime and enhance traffic safety, Capt. Jeff Rinaldo said Friday.
The development was first reported by WKBW-TV.
Interim Police Commissioner Byron C. Lockwood also told The Buffalo News Friday that he wants the Buffalo Police Department to make community policing a…

Tesla's solar energy business is slowing, and with the company focused on its all-important Model 3 electric vehicle, it's not expecting a quick turnaround.
Tesla says it's ahead of its hiring targets in Buffalo under its deal with the state. But for now, its solar business is running at a pace that's only a little more than half of the Buffalo plant's capacity.
In o…

A pair of Daemen College assistant professors who have studied with some of the top autism experts in the nation have launched a new program at the Amherst school that should help improve autism treatment in the region – and beyond.
“There’s just so much hope in what we do,” said Vicki Madaus Knapp, head of the new Applied Behavior Analysis Program.
Knapp and Vanessa…

An Amherst youth hockey coach, who is better known around the National Hockey League as a player agent, has been accused of grabbing the throat of a parent of another team's player last month during a tournament in Niagara Falls, according to authorities.
Michael Wulkan, coach of an Amherst 8 and Under team, was charged in connection with an alleged locker room altercat…

On Valentine's Day, it's time for a treat. Winter-weary Western New Yorkers owe it to ourselves to go to a flower shop.
It doesn't have to be for romantic reasons. You can choose flowers for family, friends or simply yourself. And you don't have to break the bank. A single bloom can do the trick.
"I can't tell you how many customers come in once a week, usually older…

You've heard it before: Brick-and-mortar retail is dying and Amazon is the one pulling the trigger. But department stores, with their old-fashioned business models, middle-of-the-road merchandise and mall-based locations have been hit especially hard. And it's not just e-commerce that has a gun to its head.
Department stores are facing a particularly tough set of circum…

For most of us, the cost of a misplaced romance is difficult to measure.
But for a local woman, a highly paid, white-collar professional in her late 50s, the price tag amounted to real dollars and cents.
And by the time the relationship was over, she was out more $718,000.
On Thursday, two years later, Adams Amen, one of the men behind the online fraud, appeared i…

If you searched Buffalo for someone highly qualified to write cold case murder mysteries, you would have a hard time finding an author who fills the bill better than Lissa Marie Redmond.
Redmond is a former member of the Buffalo Police Cold Cases Squad who retired in 2015. Now, instead of investigating cold case murder mysteries, she writes about them.
Her first myst…

There are certain questions that strike fear in the hearts of parents and grandparents: “Can I get a toy?” “Can we listen to KidzBop?” “What else is for dinner?” And, of course, there’s this pearl: “What are we doing over mid-winter break?”
Mid-winter break is a far trickier proposition than spring break, which for most schools will run from the end of March into early …

The high school Class of 2017 continued to push graduation rates upward, both in the Buffalo region and across New York State.
Roughly half the high schools in the area saw graduation rates rise from the previous year, including Grand Island, Williamsville East, Eden, Sweet Home, Maryvale and Cleveland Hill, according to new figures released Wednesday.
Buffalo held s…

Tesla Inc.'s solar energy installations during the fourth quarter fell to their lowest levels since the beginning of 2014 as the company continued to focus on more lucrative projects and scaled back some of its sales efforts.
But Tesla executives also said they expect solar energy installations to start growing again later this year, as it ramps up efforts to sell its s…

The effort to redevelop the former Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo campus in the Elmwood Village will kick off next week, as the developers behind the $100 million Elmwood Crossing project initiate the first phase of formal public review.
The Buffalo Planning Board on Monday will get its first look at a proposed six-story, mixed-use building at the northeast …

The high school Class of 2017 continued to push graduation rates upward, both in the Buffalo region and across New York State.
Roughly half the high schools in the area saw graduation rates rise from the previous year, including Grand Island, Williamsville East, Eden, Sweet Home, Maryvale and Cleveland Hill, according to new figures released Wednesday.
Buffalo held s…